This paper presents a method for optimal control of a running television show. The problem is formulated as a partially observed Markov decision process (POMDP). A show can be in a "good" state, i.e., it should be continued, or it can be in a "bad" state and therefore it should be changed. The...

Exponentially growing databases have been tackled on two basic fronts: technological and methodological. Technology offered solution in storage capacity, processing power, and access speed. Among the methodologies are indexing, views, data mining, and temporal databases, and combinations of...